Re: [EpiData-list] New test versions of EpiData Manager and EpiData EntryClient

Den 2013-10-28 10:39 skreiv epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca:

In regards to b) the main issue is that the delimiter cannot be part of the data, not even if it is enclosed in quotations. Since a text field in EpiData may contain ANY kind of data (that includes all visible UTF-8 characters), I chose the vertical bar "|" to be the on LEAST likely to be used as part of a text field.

How about using character 0x1E (30) or 0x1F (31) instead. They were *designed* for precisely this problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter#ASCII_delimited_text